Tara Stout, the star stalker on the run from London police, is now being sought by South Wales bobbies.

The Metropolitan Police have issued a warrant for the arrest of the 36-year-old former TV presenter, who told the Observer she had illegally contacted multi-millionaire football boss Simon Jordan two weeks ago.

Ms Stout admitted she had broke a restraining order, made to protect the Crystal Palace chairman, aged 39, after she was convicted of sending him up to 200 obscene and menacing text messages a day.

She also breached a community service order when she fled to Pontypridd from London to escape police arrest.

The divorcee, who was brought up in Gwaelod-y-Garth, walked into the Observer office again last Friday, claiming South Wales police had been to the Graig pub where she had been staying - the Rose and Crown - to try to arrest her.

She said: 'I'm really scared they will take me back to London and I will again be treated unfairly.

'Newspapers are not able to print my side of the story for fear of being sued by people with big money.'

But when officers returned to the pub later that day, Ms Stout was not there.

Friends, who did not want to be named, said she had spoken about going back to London.

A spokeswoman for Pontypridd police said: 'We have been contacted by the Metropolitan Police, who have issued an arrest warrant for a 36-year-old woman for breaching court orders.

'It is standard procedure for other police forces to contact us in cases like these.'

Last October, divorcee Ms Stout spent five weeks in Holloway women's prison on remand, before Westminster Magistrates heard how she sent Mr Jordan underwear and love letters and put his details on a website for transvestites during a 15-month stalking campaign.

A 26-week jail sentence was suspended for two years, backed by a restraining order not to contact Mr Jordan.